Go Team

So, my group for cogs121 has met up and we've gone over some design and schematics-type stuff required for our site. We're basically planning on creating a site that looks up restaurants according to hour, so far, we just want to create something looks kind of like a timeline-bar that shows when the stores will close. There's a lot of stuff on our wish-list plate like getting it onto a cell phone or creating highlighted regions (not just a list of locations). But we have to consider everything else and at least conceptually get the idea to work out.

Everyone has been assigned shopping centers to collect information and we're currently going through APIs we need and possible software/GUI we might use for the site. This is going to be an interesting project, I really hope it comes out looking really nice. At first I thought it was an original idea, but I think one other person has kind of tried it, unfortunately his site is kind of ugly and umm... the user interface isn't the most visually informative, so it never gained much popularity.

This will be a pretty interesting experience and I'm quite happy that I'm doing web stuff and developing a web service instead of crunching numbers and dealing with low level stuff for animation. Unfortunately, it, like Prof. Powell said: 'It may all go away within these next ten years', so I guess I'll savor it.